On this, your birthday, I invoke The wondrous little fairy folk And ask them that they give to you A chance to live man's whole life through.
So let all of us children Invoke the powers above To grant him long life, health and wealth, And gratitude and love.
His hair doubtless stood on end, and his voice refused to give the loud screech with which he sought to invoke the club.
Yesterday I went to the Basilica of St. Paul, being the feast of his conversion, especially to invoke his aid.
If there be a few days intervening I will go to Our Lady of Loretto to invoke her aid in our behalf and for her protection over us as a body and over each one in particular.
On the positive side his chief topics were: The Church as a Society, Why We Invoke the Saints, and the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Communion.
Since Father Hecker's death I have never failed a single day to invoke him in my prayers, and to his intercession I attribute many graces obtained, some of them very important.
Could he so invoke the power of the Christ as to change bread and wine into actual flesh and blood?
In conclusion permit me to invoke that Power which superintends all governments to infuse into your deliberations at this important crisis of our history a spirit of mutual forbearance and conciliation.
I again invoke the cooperation of the executive and legislative authorities of the States in this great purpose.
Well, for this 100th Congress, I invoke special executive powers to declare that each of you must never be titled less than honorable with a capital "H.
The concessionary, who had embarked his fortune in the enterprise, having exhausted other means of redress, was compelled to invoke the protection of his Government.
It is far better, where possible, to invoke such a permanent tribunal than to create special arbitrators for a given purpose.
I invoke the diligent and serious attention of Congress to the consideration of these and such other measures as may be presented having the same great end in view.
But may I be permitted solemnly to invoke my countrymen to pause and deliberate before they determine to destroy this the grandest temple which has ever been dedicated to human freedom since the world began?
In my last annual message I endeavored to invoke serious attention to the evils of unfair apportionments for Congress.
In my last annual communication to Congress I recommended the establishment of an agricultural bureau, and I take this occasion again to invoke your favorable consideration of the subject.
She felt that she must not confess the truth, for that would be to invoke destruction upon the head of Mohammed.
The despairing seek death, and thereby invoke upon themselves the curse of Allah for all time.
In this well-founded assurance, I welcome the trust which has been again conferred upon me, while I once more bespeak the candid judgment of my fellow-citizens, and once more invoke the guardianship of a benignant Providence.
A similar view has caused the Chaldean narrator to invoke the aid of all the gods in his pantheon to effect the destruction of man.
Meanwhile voices on all sides invoke "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world.
The heathens in siege have the town essayed, And the shattered Christians invoke thine aid.
As for you, I invoke not the spirit of vengeance; Arion wishes not your blood.
She is very fond of love ditties, and all lovers would do well to invoke her.
Well then at board behold the constant guest, With love as yet by eyes alone exprest: From the past vows he dared not yet invoke The ancient Voice;--yet of the past he spoke.
Permit me to ask that with equal sincerity and faith you will invoke His wisdom and guidance for me.
Canst thou invoke the curse of death upon one who goes hunting upon the seas?
Directly they might not be able to invoke any effective curse upon Annadoah; but well they knew, indeed, the awful power of the disembodied.
Invoke the curse of destruction upon Ootah--and I will give thee meat for the long winter.
Maisanguaq impatiently repeated his question: "Can Sipsu invoke the great curse?
Bergson; he is not so simple as to invoke the malicious criticism of knowledge in order to go on thinking rationalistically.
A spontaneous variation might be a mere madness or mutilation or monstrosity; in finding the variation admirable we evidently invoke some principle of order to which it conforms.
But if divination and eloquence--for science is out of the question--were to invoke nothing but a fluid tendency to grow, we should be left with a flat history of phenomena and no means of prediction or even classification.
Brother though you be, I hereinvoke the curses of the gods upon your head, if the faintest purpose of dishonest or deceptive dealing have place within you.
Permit me, and I will invoke the presence of the Ethiopian.
Before entering upon any great or important undertaking, we ought always to invoke the aid of Deity.
It is our first duty, then, to invoke the blessing of the great Architect of the Universe upon the work in which we are about to engage.
We humbly invoke Thee to give us at this, and at all times, Wisdom in all our doings, Strength of mind in all our difficulties, and the Beauty of harmony in all our communications.
But man is not so deprived of honest means of gaining heaven, that he is obliged to invokethe aid of pharmacy or witchcraft; he need not sell his soul in order to pay for the intoxicating caresses and the love of houris.
We answer:-- You have ceased to have any right to invoke the interest of the consumer; for whenever his interest is found opposed to that of the producer, you sacrifice the former.
All invoke the Deity, and take the auspices to ascertain his will, nearly in the same way; and all expect that he will guide them successfully through their enterprises, as long as they find the omens favourable.
In the very rudest state of society, among the woods and hills of India, the people have some deity whose power they dread, and whose name they invoke when much is supposed to depend upon the truth of what one man is about to declare.
Helen Williams used to complain bitterly to the housekeeper of this espionage, and Mrs. Bond used as strenuously to invoke the aid of the housekeeper in watching; so that the unfortunate woman was between two fires, and scorched pro and con.
Not that we would invoke Darwinian aid, or inquire into the family peculiarities of the sponge--"O philoprogenitive sponge!
Although the impetuous zeal of many believers caused them to expose themselves willingly in order to invoke the Blessed Virgin in the place of her apparition, nevertheless the jurisprudence of M.
So great was his reputation for sanctity that it became a familiar and pious practice in Canada to invoke his intercession.
He is not here, nor do I name him as a flatterer, but because I am thankful for his love and care which he had to me a poor man; and if I knew surely that he were past all shores that the sun shines upon, I would invoke him as a deified thing.
Therefore, his best safety was in flight, and to invoke none of the gods but Cratis, who is Scylla's mother, and might perhaps forbid her daughter to devour them.
Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.
And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that invoke thy name.
To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.
Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.
And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
And they shallinvoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
Invoke not Cytherea's aid, Nor borrow from the blue-eyed maid; Nor need you on the Graces call; Take qualities from Donegal.
